[2] _The Oxford Universal Dictionary_ (Oxford, 1955), p. 637.
[3] Solon and Elizabeth Buck, _The Planting of Civilization in Western Pennsylvania_ (Pittsburgh, 1939), pp. 431 and 451.
[4] _See_, for example, Dunaway, _A History of Pennsylvania_, p. 146, and _The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania_, pp. 159-160; _also_, Leyburn, _The Scotch-Irish_, p. 306.
[5] Turner, _The Frontier in American History_, p. 1.
[7] Quoted by Ray Allen Billington in his introduction to Turner, _Frontier and Section_, p. 5.
[8] _Pennsylvania Archives_, Second Series, III, 217-218, 518-522.
[9] This pride was notably demonstrated in the insistence of the Fair Play settlers that a stand be made at Fort Augusta following the Great Runaway. Previous to this, they had pleaded for support for "our Common Cause" in the defense of this frontier. _Pennsylvania Archives_, Second Series, III, 217.
[10] _Pennsylvania Archives_, Second Series, X, 27-31, 417, and Fifth Series, II, 29-35.
[11] Quoted in Clinton Rossiter, _The First American Revolution_ (New York, 1956), pp. 4-5.
[12] Turner, _The Frontier in American History_, p. 37.
[14] _See also_, George D. Wolf, "The Tiadaghton Question," _The Lock Haven Review_, Series I, No. 5 (1963), 61-71.
[15] Buck, _The Planting of Civilization in Western Pennsylvania_, pp. 431, 451.
[16] Anna Jackson Hamilton to Hon. George C. Whiting, Commissioner of Pensions, Dec. 16, 1858, Wagner Collection, Muncy Historical Society.
[17] _Colonial Records_, X, 634-635. The following resolution of Congress was entered in the minutes of the Council of Safety on July 5, 1776:
_Resolved_, That Copies of the Declaration be sent to the several Assemblies, Conventions, and Councils of Safety, and to the several Commanding Officers of the Continental Troops, that it be proclaimed in each of the United States, and at the Head of the Army.
By order of Congress. sign'd, JOHN HANCOCK, Presid't.
Provision was also made for the reading in Philadelphia at 12 noon on July 8, and letters were sent to Bucks, Chester, Northampton, Lancaster, and Berks counties with copies of the Declaration to be posted on Monday the 8th where elections for delegates were to be held. For some reason, the frontier counties of Bedford, Cumberland, Westmoreland, York, and Northumberland, contiguous to the Fair Play territory, were omitted from these instructions.